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Upon first arriving at the earnestly offbeat ambience of Sonic Circuits, I thought I might have made a mistake in not finding a Monster Truck meet to attend. But I soon changed my mind.

First up was Weed Tree, Amanda Huron, drums, and Layne Garrett, guitar (al la Fred Frith).  You know my antipathy to dial twiddlers, and Layne was doing a lot of that at first. Amanda made Meg White look like Elvin Jones.  Suddenly, things changed when Michael Thomas Jackson loped on stage, first doing a little dial twiddling of his own, but soon wielded a clarinet, and from that moment things got interesting, nay, exciting. You can get a sense of it from the clip:

Next up was Sarah Hughes, playing saxophone, somewhere in Diamond Terrifier territory.

Jack Wright was next.  I thought it was a very fine set.  Jack has a bass player, Evan Lipson,  and a percussionist, Ben Bennett, who are well-worth watching. The trio played with empathy and intensity. 

So, in the end, it was better than a Monster Truck meet.  Lesson learned.